The Short Novels of John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath is generally considered Steinbecks masterpiece, but the short novel was the form he most frequently turned to and most consciously theorized about, and with constant experimentation he made the form his own. Much of the bestand the worstof his writing appears in his short novels. This collection reviews what has been categorized as the good and the bad, looking beyond the careless labeling that has characterized a great deal of the